Comment by Nextgrid

9 hours ago

Why would you do that vs just publishing on your own domain?

The article isn't resolving, so I can't speak to what it exactly says.

However, the question isn't "on your own domain vs not," it's "how you publish." Blog networks are popular because most people do not have the technical ability to spin up a server, buy a domain, and point it at it.

Why an atproto based solution instead of Medium or whatever? Because then you actually own your own data. And that also doesn't preclude it ending up on your own domain in the end anyway, because it's your data.

This ATproto astroturfing is becoming a bit ridiculous.

  • The three main publishing platforms are working together

    https://standard.site/

    ATProto and the ATmosphere are different

    • I’m looking at the site and right at the beginning it says:

      > Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.

      Which part of these required a new protocol and couldn’t be built before @at existed? Seems to me we’re reinventing the wheel for I’m not entirely sure which benefit. But maybe someone who’s more into this part of the web can educate me on this.

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  • God forbid that technologists are enthusiastic about a technology.

    Such things never happen, least of all here, on Hacker News.